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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;eddiespin, post: 690645, member: 4920&quot;]OK, Mike, that&#039;s better. I&#039;ll tell you what really got me in that former reply, though. It was your suggestion that my position condones deception. That got me like a knife. Let me just very quickly take a little time, here, and see if I can&#039;t straighten you out on that, then I have to go...</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you recall when blast white coins were the craze? The coin doctors saw the money in it, and they went straight to work. And now there are doctored blast white Morgan Dollars, among other silver coins, in TPG slabs, considered &quot;market acceptable,&quot; and that nobody cares one, single iota about. We also all know why. Nobody can tell. The TPGs can&#039;t even tell. Unless, that is to say, it was a terrible, terrible dipping job (a.k.a., dipping malpractice <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, let&#039;s see if we can add two and two, here. Toning, not blast white, is now the craze. Now, the money is in toning. And, lo and behold, the coin doctors are back at work. As a matter of fact, I&#039;ll go as far as to suggest, there are probably more coins out there than most of us would care to acknowledge that have doctored toning (through dipping, gassing, cooking, perhaps only God knows what else), but that, nonetheless, are in TPG slabs, and considered &quot;market acceptable&quot;...as we speak.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, just a little on this &quot;purist standard,&quot; specifically, you, and some of the other prominent members, here (Mark Feld, for sure; Lehigh, to some extent) have gone on the line on, and have been advocating. Apply that same standard to blast white coins. You know that a lot of those coins have been doctored to achieve that blast white effect. Tell us, if you will, what&#039;s the difference between <i>that </i>deception, and <i>this </i>deception?&nbsp; Are the coins not <i>both </i>doctored? Have the coins not <i>both </i>been manipulated, worked, and, for the same, exact purpose, to deceive the marketplace? Apply your same, purist standards to dipped, blast white coins. Then, understand, nobody, here, is condoning that practice. All some of us rather have been trying to get across is, unless it&#039;s spray paint, i.e., a terrible, terrible toning job (oh, what the hell...toning malpractice <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), there&#039;s no way to tell, and there&#039;s nothing anybody can do about that. So, don&#039;t lose any sleep over it.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: Honestly, I have to catch a plane in a few hours. Don&#039;t know what else I can say, though, too. Look, take care... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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